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A national public health campaign co-developed by The Open University (OU) researchers to support UK-wide communities to age well, inclusive of, co-developed with and for unpaid carers, has won the ‘Standout Campaign of the Year’ category at the 2026 Carers UK Awards.

Following the launch of the Milton Keynes Robotics Adoption Hub during MK Tech Week, researchers at The Open University have secured just over £200,000 in Innovate UK funding to investigate how towns and cities can make informed decisions about the adoption of robotics technologies.

The Open University will once again join forces with Midlands Innovation, Nottingham Trent University and De Montfort University to deliver Open Research Week 2027, a sector-wide celebration of open, transparent and inclusive research.

In her inaugural lecture on 8 October 2026, Jacqueline Baxter, Professor of Public Leadership and Management, Open University Business School, Faculty of Business & Law, examined the powerful yet often unseen ways organisational and sociological cultures shape learning, leadership, meaning and occupational identity in today’s workplaces.

The UK’s pension triple lock has only been in place for 15 years. But it’s done the job it was brought in to do, and now it should be scrapped.

A national public health campaign co-developed by The Open University researchers to support UK-wide communities to age well, inclusive of, co-developed with and for unpaid carers, has been shortlisted for the ‘Standout Campaign of the Year’ category at the 2026 Carers UK Awards.

Prof Gini Harrison, from The Open University's School of Psychology and Counselling, has been awarded £110k from Maggie's to help develop a new digital platform that connects people living with oncogene-driven lung cancer to trusted information and support.

Dr Melisa Porter, from The Open University's School of Education, Childhood, Youth and Sport, has secured £94,578 from the Economic and Social Research Council through the Grand Union Doctoral Training Partnership Postdoctoral Fellowship scheme.

Dr Angelo Salatino, from the Open University's Knowledge Media Institute , has secured £308,702 (£186,028 to the OU) in funding from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) for a project that aims to identify potentially transformative research earlier and more effectively.

Researchers from AstrobiologyOU have uncovered new insights into how microscopic life survives in Lake Karum, Ethiopia, one of the world's most extreme saline environments.